Fred A. Bernstein

At New York's Museum of Modern Art, Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream proposes five solutions to the disconnect between the housing Americans need and the housing America offers

PARK yourself anywhere on Commercial Street, the bustling main artery of Provincetown, and you'll see celebrities, some real (John Waters, Norman Mailer), some fake (that wasn't Cher)

The Terranea Resort, a $480 million hotel, opened last month in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., after the city agreed to a tax rebate plan

For this couple, it's all about love -- and architecture

A Bulgarian immigrant finds that thrift and ingenuity go a long way in a tiny apartment

Three of the most eloquent voices at the Venice Architecture Biennale addressed different aspects of the same question: Can architecture improve lives in Africa? 

The Florida capital as a weekend destination

Returning to the block I grew up on

On the street where I lived . . .

184 Markers for the Missing

Modernism arouses ire in the city's historic district

The best and worst of Bermuda

Toni Griffin lives in a former office building that was converted into 317 rental apartments — the first new luxury building in Newark in more than 40 years

What happened to the planetarium's glamorous gizmo?

By performing "constituent services," senators and representatives short-circuit the democratic process, weakening separation of powers, equal protection, and other constitutional safeguards

America's housing disparity grows worse

Barbra Streisand's "barn" in Malibu

The badly damaged 1993 exterior of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in Lower Manhattan, by Steve Holl and Vito Acconci, will be restored

The zany artistic duo of Kahn & Selesnick spin fantastical worlds that captivate collectors and critics alike

Living with century-old bricks and massive wooden trusses 

It took a lot of years to get it built. But Gehry stayed the course, compromised when necessary, and rose above his critics

Paradors were once essential stops for visitors to the Spanish provinces. They're becoming that again.

Latin American art fills one of the city's most dramatic living rooms

Built in 1915 and used as a machinery warehouse until last year, the Grand Machinery Exchange is being converted to 14 condos by gallery owner Max Protetch

Aboard the fireboat John J. Harvey

A family lives and works in an eccentric space that overlooks the lighting fixture stores that dominate a section of the Bowery

The avant garde, on Staten Island!

Life in multi-culti Brooklyn

Why owning a rental property made me uncomfortable

The MFA Boston comes to the Las Vegas strip

Sam Davol, the cellist for the Magnetic Fields, and his wife, Leslie, move north

An addition to the Tilles Center soars

The conspicuous consumption of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

When Frank Lloyd Wright’s SC Johnson Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, opens for tours for the first time in 60 years, visitors will see firsthand its functional shortcomings along with its spectacular innovations. 

A review of the Secaucus Transfer

Pier Luigi Nervi's bus station at the George Washington Bridge deserves respect

A new 168-page supplement makes the city’s 1,500-page zoning resolution a little less daunting

Calatrava helps bring tourists to Santa Cruz

A review of the W New Orleans

The veteran actor comes to dinner with the man who has spent decades hiding in plain sight

The apartment every celebrity needs

Diller Scofidio + Renfro leads an international team of designers, working in the shadow of the Kremlin

OMA's design seems to hit all its marks

Visting the Rural Studio's buildings in Alabama is one of the world's great architecture pilgrimages

It will be great for the city's economy, its infrastructure, and its reputation

The Oklahoma-born architect built some of the great California houses of the 20th Century

Philip Johnson's synagogue in Port Chester, New York, is now as practical as it is beautiful

Visiting Paul Rudolph's Buildings in New England

While fighting over his Columbus Circle building, preservationists overlooked another Stone structure just a few blocks away

Carlos Brillembourg, an architect, and Karin Waisman, an artist, built a modern house in the Hamptons that is spacious, spare and stylish

Review of Browns Hotel, Miami Beach

Tekserve lives the Apple slogan

Extraordinary ingenuity makes a tiny apartment seem spacious 

Why is a Washington, D.C., rail revamp moving forward while another in New York can’t seem to pull away from the platform? Image courtesy Amtrak A rendering for an improved West End Concourse extending from New York's Penn Station under the Farley Post Office. Riding Amtrak from Washington’s Union Station to New York’s Penn Station is a trip, architecturally speaking, from heaven to hell. So it came as a surprise this summer when Amtrak announced plans to transform one of those stations into “a world class transportation hub,” at an estimated cost of nearly $7 billion

Sean Strub finally visited Milford, Pa., where he was smitten and found a Victorian in town for $360,000

The Friends of the Los Angeles River want to transform a 130-acre rail yard into a park that would serve as a flood detention plain for a river restored to its natural state

A university museum in Iowa, operating without a building, instead takes its collection on the road

The house is part of their collection

As much sculptors of space and curators of experience as they are architects, the partners of San Francisco's Aidlin Darling Design create emotionally evocative residences that appeal to more than just the eye

The super-talented architect and designer died too soon.

Making buildings resilient does not slow climate change. Usually, the opposite is true.

A great base for exploring the Hudson Valley

(all that in 2,500 words)

At home with the Ricky of Ricky's

For Daniel Toole, a major commission while still in architecture school

David Penick, an architect, and Mary Delaney Penick, an interior designer, live in an elegant brick-and-limestone building in Greenwich Village

A booth for a Jewish festival

Zumthor, Nouvel and much more

Building a modernist house in the Hamptons

When the recession dried up a Texas couple’s credit sources, their architect realized that he had to build their modernist house himself.

Pritzker Prize-winners compete.

The Empire State Building risks being obscured by lesser towers

His descendant, architect Samuel White, leads the tour

The high price of Bermuda real estate

A haven for "multiple chemical sensitivity" sufferers is threatened

Dealing with the yuck factor

Do my neighbors need to know which candidates I support?

Only one of them can be "the greenest office building in the world"

The late starchitect had a penchant — and a gift — for designing instantly iconic objects, from cars to sofas to bracelets

A tribute to "the Emperor" of Japanese Architects

The architect was awarded a Pulitzer Prize last month for her investigative work

Edwad Larrabee Barnes Visits Westchester

One after another, architects who grew up in New York in the sixties recall how the fair inspired them

Ikea's plans for Westchester draw ire

Can Frank Gehry's firm outlive its founder? Norman Foster's? Zaha Hadid's?

Websites are a vital marketing tool. Unless you’re a superstar design firm, steer clear of archi-speak and tricky graphics. Users want a site that is clean and simple.

A profile of artist and memorial designer MAYA LIN

There's evidence that the size of new homes in America has peaked

At home with Ann Brashares and Jacob Collins

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., will open an $8-million building that artists can saw through, drill through, and generally mangle, just as they did at the museum's original home

The developers of some of the city’s most expensive condominiums would rather wait for the right tenant

Photography policies vary widely among art museums, with the more restrictive ones citing the need to protect visitors’ experiences and the artist’s intellectual property, as well as the art itself.

Scott Salvator has a lot of very funny things to say about a serious lobby restoration

Alan Eckstein, cofounder of the label Timo Weiland, turns his gaze from fashionable clothing to timeless objects

A dark and mysterious pavilion—the first new arrival in two decades—shakes up the Venice Biennale

If everything is bigger in Texas, Marfa is the exception. A new book examines the homes in this art-focused desert city, where less is best

A wood temple on a sacred site opens and closes like a book

Some called him India's greatest architect

My life as a sissy

The California architect has found herself in high demand, thanks to her floating foundations and walls that open to the world

The owner and chef of the Quilted Giraffe in the 1970s and ’80s has a simple recipe for home design: Anything goes.

Can a website write me a new will?

Syd Kitson's big deal

The incredible saga of the bakery founder's loft

Smiljan Radic's beacon-like regional theater in Chile is a concrete structure wrapped as lightly as a tent

"He's a beautiful poet. But I don't think he was ever the greatest singer."

Soldiers pursue degrees online

But is it legal?

Whose property are abandoned bikes, anyway?

Is it steeling, or just making the streets look better?

Modular housing has already obscured most of the east facade of Barclays Center, long before the building has reached its full height. Until five years ago, the stretch of Flatbush Avenue between the Manhattan Bridge and Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn was an architectural wasteland. The strip started coming to life with a small project (WXY’s skillful security booths for the MetroTech center), then with a very big one—the Toren, an SOM-designed condo tower with an unusual, dimpled-metal façade

The Center for Architecture in Greenwich Village has expanded again.

Toshiko Mori's architectural dialogues with the masters

The creation of a small number of high-end units from buildings that once housed multitudes may seem incongruous, but developers say the decision is driven by the market

The creation of a small number of high-end units from buildings that once housed multitudes

Rod Garrett, who laid out Burning Man, the annual festival of self-expression in Nevada, drew accolades for his approach

Artist Rachel Whiteread leaves two ghost buildings in the California desert

A "national shrine" now hovers over the World Trade Center site

Game Changer: Columbia University's quirky but tough field house bridges the divide between its gritty surroundings and the athletic playing fields beyond

David Adjaye and Moshe Safdie remember the Indian architect, who died at the age of 84

The architect talks to Record about the firm’s first, and biggest project, still incomplete, for Dissona

Owners of trophy houses leave parts of the city deserted

What I made with salt and pepper shakers

A review of the new American Folk Art Museum, designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.

The new Las Vegas CityCenter was designed by a Rat pack of star architects. Can their high-modern megaproject move sin city’s design standards beyond the ersatz?

Renewing an important campus by Paul Rudolph poses dangers and the chance to keep his work alive

A dialogue with Judge Alex Kozinski, of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, about the clash between a liberal clerk (me) and a conservative judge (him).

The Clinton library rises on the Arkansas River

Most modernists find color as attractive as traditional Tudors. Fred Bernstein, a resolute lover of neutrals, attempts to expand his horizon of hues

Two buildings open on a new campus in upper Manhattan, with a promise to enhance the community

Lessons on leadership from the Torah

What if New York City treated Barry Diller's $120 million fantasy park as an experiment, but not a monument?

The Standard and the Setai play to different strengths

Following the lead of Tadao Ando, architects raise pouring concrete to an art form

In Bolinas, a water meter sells for $310,000

The 1,653-foot-high building will be part of a new Manhattan skyline that not everyone is happy about

By running their fingers across new “super-high-definition smart tables," visitors make shapes that are then displayed as hats, lamps, tables, vases, chairs, or buildings

Two architecturally ambitious developments have stalled following accusations of municipal malfeasance. Photo via Wikipedia Following a corruption investigation, bidding has stalled on a $1-billion project to redevelop the Miami Beach Convention Center site. Architects, no matter how successful, are dependent on clients; even the indomitable Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas can see their best efforts dashed when clients get in trouble. That’s the situation in Florida, where the two starchitects were in the running to design a billion-dollar development on the site of the Miami Beach Convention Center

Let's give the land a rest

How good it is for brothers to sit peacefully together

How I became a middle aged father.

Vornado's billboard boondoggle at 34th and 7th

Mr. Rowen was a highly regarded architect whose modernist designs attracted a number of promient clients

Thanks to Rem Koolhaas, Porto, Portugal will never be the same

A portrait of Ricky Revesz

With a little help from its sponsors . . .

The developers of a condo in Chelsea designed by Jean Nouvel are altering the building’s lobby after real estate agents attributed slow sales to the lobby’s design

The Academy Award–winning actress and design maven tells us how she turned to the image-collecting site for inspiration in planning her new house

Their new Columbia Medical School study center caps decades of experimentation

Architecturally ambitous, it's also a model of international cooperation

David Mixner moves to Livingston Manor, New York

Architect Jonathan Segal prospers by serving as his own client, general contractor, and property manager

Northeastern Pennsylvania Gets Chic

My philosophy of writing -- and rewriting.

The last time Blake Trabulsi and Allison Orr had a party at their house in Austin, Texas, it lasted until 5 a.m. Observes Trabulsi: “People are so comfortable here, they never want to leave.”

Thoughts on the importance of the Empire State Building after September 11

Still labeled Dubai 2020, the World Expo will open on October 1, complete with a centerpiece dome by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill

Trouble at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture

The American designer has built his reputation on helping clients express their personalities through their homes

The fight for photos of a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece

A new book gives Mrs. Saarinen too much credit, and its author, Eva Hagberg, too much space

A grand lodge near the Grand Canyon

For children of minimalists, only more is more

The newest engineered wood floors, which do not warp over time, have top layers that are made of hardwood and are up to one-quarter-inch thick.

A look at Douglas Coupland and his novel Miss Wyoming

My encounter with the author, aesthete and raconteur Douglas Coupland

A pavilion designed by Woods with Christoph A. Kumpusch is under construction in Chengdu, China. “I was never in love with drawing,” Woods says “I drew because I wanted to express ideas.”

The man behind the mega-dorm at the University of California, Santa Barbara, responds to criticism that it will create an unhealthy environment for students in rooms without windows

It’s hard to imagine a country with more varied architecture than Mexico, and a show at the Palacio de Iturbide is devoted to the last century of that diversity. Mario Pani and Luis Ramos Cunningham. Nonoalco Tlatelolco Housing Complex, 1964. Mexico City. One of the challenges facing the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), as it gathers material for its planned 2015 show of Latin American architecture from 1954 to 1980, is that Mexico alone warrants as much space as MoMA is likely to allot to the entire region

Thierry Jeannot's Green Transmutation Chandelier (2010) made from reclaimed materials, green dye, aluminum, and light bulbs. Don’t envy Lowery Stokes Sims, the curator of the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, her many recent trips to Latin America. As the force behind New Territories, the museum’s survey of recent design in 14 countries (through April 6), Sims maintained a punishing schedule of studio visits; her itineraries and notes are viewable on iPads in the museum’s ingenious “Curator Lab.” Sims discovered many more worthwhile items, most of them by young designers, than the museum had room for. Her other challenge

The exhibition materials are displayed in a series of curved vitrines that form a circle within the main room of the Archives building. Japan is one of the many countries—both Eastern and Western—that hasn’t been sufficiently respectful of its modernist architectural heritage. Still, preservationists in most countries would envy Japan its National Archives of Modern Architecture, conceived by the late architectural historian Hiroyuki Suzuki and created by the government in 2012. The Archives benefits from public funding, its own building (within the Kyu-Iwasaki-tei Garden in Tokyo’s Yushima neighborhood), and, if that weren’t enough, Tadao Ando as its honorary director

Two teachers have been bringing out the inner architects in Moscow children since the Soviet era

Open since May 1, this tightly packed world's fair of architectural hits and misses runs through October 31. UK Pavilion by Tristan Simmonds in collaboration with BDP and Stage One. The first world exposition, held in London in 1851, occupied Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace. But during the last century, expos (also called world's fairs) evolved into collections of national pavilions that competed for attention with novel and grandiose building designs. The Shanghai Expo in 2010 kicked off the “Asian century” with a show of architectural pyrotechnics that reportedly attracted 73 million visitors

The longtime home of the Swiss National Museum, or Landesmuseum, in Zurich, is a stolid 19th-century pile

A topflight Manhattan designer expanded her father's house on Long Island and brought it forward from the 1970s.

Plans to protect Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House by placing it on a hydraulic lift to be deployed in case of flooding are proceeding at a rate that has surprised even the plans’ supporters

“La Sapienza" is a rarity: a fictional film about real architecture

The Rotterdam-based firm West 8 has transformed 30 acres on Governors Island into parkland. Buildings have been leveled and parking spaces have been eliminated on the 172-acre island, leaving plenty of open space. When superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc around New York Harbor, Governors Island was largely spared, in large part because construction of a new park had involved both adding elevation and installing proper drainage. “I’m glad my landscape architect is Dutch,” says Leslie Koch, president of the Trust for Governors Island, referring to Adriaan Geuze, the principal of Rotterdam-based West 8

Early this afternoon, during a preview of his firm’s new building for the Perez Art Museum Miami, Jacques Herzog sat in a window seat in a second floor gallery and discussed what the building lacked. “It doesn’t really have a form,” he said, looking out at Biscayne Bay past rows of thin concrete columns supporting a trellis overhead. “It’s more about its permeability. There is so much form in Miami. We wanted to do something that shows the potential in this city to let in sun and vegetation.”

Weeks before its grand opening, Safdie gives a behind-the-scenes tour of Alice Walton’s museum of American art

Joy's 1,000-square-foot station is part of the redevelopment of the southwest corner of the Princeton University campus

The new branch of the Louvre couldn't be more different from the museum's iconic Paris home

How Not to Measure the White Stuff

The architect and furniture designer, who reinvented the modern office, passed away at the age of 101 last week

Black architects are designing Black cultural institutions

And it's in Newark!

A modest income qualified this actor for affordable, convenient housing.

Technology could let the tax code get even more complicated.

Moving fabled galleries to a new building, while changing almost nothing

A very expensive experiment in creating an energy-efficient dwelling overlooks the impact of embodied energy

Having created rarefied spaces for decades, the legendary French designer has finally agreed to document his impressive body of work in a new book

The project marks the nonagenarian architect's latest pro bono gig 

The Cretellas renovate

45 years after his death, three buildings by Wright are in the works

To rebuild their lives, they need barrier-free houses

Bringing in an architect to reconcile her taste for bling and his taste for Bauhaus

Jennifer Luce's triumph in La Jolla

How the Statue of Liberty could be recreated, after a disaster

But there are impediments to gay divorce.

The Holocaust survivor who birthed a rock star

How Robert Hammond and Joshua David Saved the Elevated Railway

Lillian Schloss bought Chinese antiquities early

A wild ride that isn't over yet

Marty Skrelunas polishes Philip Johnson's masterpiece

Merce Cunningham animates Philip Johnson's estate

Too many glass buildings, and the city becomes just another banal office park

An East-West collaboration upstate from Manhattan sheds light on a houseful of Chinese art

West Village resident Marianne Cusato designs Katrina Cottages

It's still early in 2014, but already several important modernist buildings have fallen​​, inclduing Bertrand Goldberg's cloverleaf-shaped Prentice Women's Hospital

His subtractive approach has countless applications

A Gossamer Serpent in New Canaan

In Santa Cruz, accessory dwelling units are encouraged

Bernard Tschumi's New Acropolis Museum was designed to settle a score

Next week, 19 groups of architecture students will serve meals at houses they built in Washington, part of the Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon.

A town where Vietnam draft avoiders have made a difference

"Is Harvey gay? I don't know. I don't sleep with him."

Decades into a renowned career, the Seattle architect Tom Kundig continues using humble materials to create pared-down forms that exist in harmony with their often-spectacular settings

The Twelve Tribes in Oak Hill and Coxsackie

A PTAC — package terminal air-conditioner — can be an ugly intrusion, and a great convenience

My father's bad investment

What happens to architecturally important private homes when families who have protected them—sometimes for four decades or more—decide to sell

Cities assess properties remotely

The great Fire Island architect gets the recognition he deserves

A review of the long-awaited Lower East Side hotel

If Harvard had a hotel school, its summa cum laude graduates would want to work at Veritas

The views are exceptional, but the entire building creaks -- loudly -- when it's windy

Affordable housing, near the happiest place on earth

And What's Next for These Hometown Heroes?

Internal competition is one of several successul methods

Not as green as we might hope -- or as Apple might suggest

Saving the environment begins at work

A roundtable of experts on making existing houses greener

Smoking might have fallen out of fashion, but these ashtrays have enduring design appeal

Architect Joshua Ramus discusses the recently-completed exterior of the theater in Lower Manhattan that opens in 2023

Architect Hugh Hardy died last week at 84

A confidant of I. M. Pei, Perry Chin was asked to consult on plans to give Pei’s East Building of the National Gallery in Washington new heating, cooling, security, and fire safety systems

A review of the cold accommodations

The importance of New York to architects' careers

With the Barclays Center set to open in September, property owners await big changes

A son designs a Costa Rica retreat for a literary dad

Why Barbara Hill is one of my favorite designers, ever

Kulapat Yantrasast's Grand Rapids Art Museum has a light footprint

Infrastrucutre gets a new look

Ron Witte and Sarah Whiting live in a modest, modernist masterpiece.

Rosie O'Donnell puts her stamp on Family Week

Architect Manuel Herz taps into a long history of kinetic architecture

Projects from around the country reflect an array of inventive affordable approaches

MDFG cofounders Jeffrey Graetsch and Ashley Booth Klein, who also happen to be a married couple, have filled their apartment and their gallery with works by mid-century design icons

Wrightwood 659’s ambitious program includes a reinstallation of the U.S. exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale

What does it mean to be "inscribed in the book of life?" My interpretation.

The gay backstory of New York's Irish Hunger Memorial

My life as a juror.

Brazil’s leading design talent executes Bauhaus minimalism with near-magical moments of drama in a string of understated hotels and homes

Give Calatrava a chance!

The architect and urban designer died at the age of 88 at his home in East Hampton, New York

The exhibition "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" at Johannesburg's Goethe-Institut explores the need for legal housing for armies of squatters

John Belle, who died this week at 84, helped restore several of New York City’s most important buildings, including Grand Central Terminal and the soaring Enid Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden

Jon Jerde often said “the communal experience is a designable event,” and he proved it over and over during a 50-year-career. The architect, who died this week at 75, created ersatz downtowns, really elaborate malls with vast garages. His most famous project was Universal CityWalk, a hilltop shopping-and-entertainment center in Los Angeles, completed in 1993. Herbert Muschamp, the longtime architecture critic of The New York Times, admired CityWalk’s showbiz vitality. Jerde, he famously wrote, was more likely to be nominated for an Oscar than a Pritzker

A new beachside building on Long Island embraces environmental stewardship

The unlucky architect of the Sydney Opera House

In several apartments in Los Angeles, the architecture critic has created murals that fool the eye into connecting distinct surfaces

Not every gallery he designs is a plain white box

The developers of On Prospect Park, a Richard Meier building, have reworked the interiors to include more family-sized apartments

Architects have something new to worry about

The relationship between Le Corbusier and New York City involved love and hatred, passion and resentment, and ultimately a quest by the architect for “revenge, recognition, and money, money, money,” according to Jean-Louis Cohen

Gustavo Bonevardi in the West Village

When Less is More Earth-friendly

Burning Man is many things -- including a model of smart city planning.

Cass Calder Smith comes to New York

A proposal for improving New York's streets.

When Peter Wynne Rees became the chief planner of the City of London in 1985, the famous “square mile” had only one hotel. Now two of the City’s most important Edwardian buildings are becoming luxury hotels.

Restoring the Yale University Art Gallery

Tom Killian and Francoise Bollack keep their interventions subtle

The gentle architecture of Phase Three

A relatively small project turns into a major renovation

For Tad Beck, making a home out of a stolid, windowless warehouse meant opening it up from the inside out

The U.S. "ambassador" makes her presence known

Article on In Our Own Time: Modern Architecture in Litchfield, 1949-1970, show at Litchfield History Museum in Connecticut featuring more than dozen early modernist houses designed by Marcel Breuer, Richard Neutra, Edward Durrell Stone and others

When her partner, Arakawa, predeceased her, she declared dying "immoral"

The Southern California interior designer has won the trust of her high-flying clients — Hollywood movers and shakers among them — by creating soulful spaces whose mix of materials, styles, eras and furnishings gives homes meaning and make them feel lively

A brilliant way to privilege underprivileged children

Gil Garcetti is a serious photographer

Joshua Prince-Ramus discusses the challenges and opportunities of working abroad

Here home is in her office. She makes it work.

The high-flying designer lands in Miami

The lives of Steven Lofton, Roger Croteau, and their foster children

The saddest of American crimes evokes the best in American architetcture

Young designers mix it up in Greenpoint

A portrait of the memorial designer as architect and artist

Was I being practical, or paranoid?

Working from his studios in Chicago and New York City, Dirk Denison designs residences that are uniquely tailored to the individuals who call them home

Architects get busy after 9/11

The British-born designer of Boston City Hall died Friday, March 27, 2020, at age 84, after contracting COVID-19

The great critic, curator and connector

In redesigning San Diego’s Mingei Museum, LUCE et Studio engages artists to further the institution’s mission

An endangered species at the National Parks: modernist architecture

A house in Memphis cuts it carbon footprint (albeit with offsets)

A new house breaks with tradition

The role of Jews in creating and popularizing post-war modernism is the subject of a new exhibition at the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco. Think Eichler, Levitt, Guggenheim, and Fallingwater.

Eight hundred people turned out for what was, in effect, a town hall meeting on the demolition of the Tod Williams Billie Tsien building

Assessing the New Orleans real estate market after Katrina

The Freedom Tower could become a true symbol of freedom

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, H3 Hardy Collaboration, SHoP Architects, and SOM present plans to relocate the arena so Penn Station can be rebuilt. 

Allied Works's Brad Cloepfil bravely tackles the redo for New York City's Museum of Arts and Design

Uber and Tinder are just the app-etizers

A quiet alternative to Kyoto

Paul Andreu's mammoth 'Egg' shelters three theaters under one domed roof

Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"

Ignoring embodied carbon lets architects, developers and even architecture schools call wasteful buildings "green"

Rubicon Property has raised $8,000 for a group called charity:water, which provides potable water to developing countries.

Undulating walls of stainless steel will ensure that few units at 8 Spruce Street, designed by Frank Gehry, will be identical

A new circulating library will be housed within the New York Public Library's main building on 42nd Street in Manhattan

The billionaire chats with RECORD about his Thomas Heatherwick-designed island, disagreeing with Frank Gehry, and why he hates Jean Nouvel's 100 Eleventh Avenue

The renowned Spanish engineer and designer is the subject of an exhibition opening today at Russia's Hermitage Museum—the institution's first retrospective devoted to a contemporary architect. Calatrava speaks candidly with Architectural Record about the show, his work, and the criticism he often faces

Museum curators tend to stay behind the scenes, especially when high-profile artists are involved. But the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Jeff Koons: A Retrospective, which runs through October 19, has been so lavishly praised that its curator, Scott Rothkopf, couldn’t stay out of the spotlight if he tried

An apartment the world deserves to see

The Ottoman emperor-in-waiting lives in a walk-up, rent-controlled apartment

Do you have to be male or female to be married?

Controversy on West 15th Street

Roger Duffy remakes the mega-firm

The "Ball Four" author cries "Foul Ball" in the Berkshires

Living off-the-grid appeared to be going mainstream

An aesthetic that mined the past gets a historical consideration of its own at a New York City symposium

Transgender students gain rights, and respect, in college

Princeton goes Gehry -- and Gothic -- at the same time

In a post-occupancy visit, Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem’s public library, which stayed open during Covid, is clearly a popular amenity

Boston-based architect Adolfo Perez turned a mid-century starter house into a home of substance for design-wise clients.

Cultivation is legal, but it isn't scenic

Marmol Radziner has restored and adapted E. Stewart Williams' 1961 Santa Fe Federal Savings & Loan building for use by the museum.

An old city gets an unwelcome new neighbor

A competition challenged four architecture firms to come up with new ideas for Long Island downtowns. Utile, Inc.'s scheme for Rockville Centre, where a train station on columns already exists, would add monumental arcades to shelter a garage during the week and a pedestrian plaza on weekends. Proponents of smart growth, which generally involves reliance on mass transit, should find a lot to admire on Long Island, where the nation’s largest commuter railroad carries upwards of 300,000 passengers a day. The trouble is that many of those commuters arrive at local train stations by car

The fate of Rudolph's apartment buildings in the Bronx

The famed architect, who would have turned 100 this year, designed intricate brutalist structures that were all about performance

Around the world in 20 slides

A review of the architect's 2004 Castelvecchio installation

Since it opened in 1995, Bruder has been able to bring the building into the 21^st century without compromising his architectural vision, of which flexibility was a key part

Saving two rusting piers in the Hudson River

Architect Bernard Tschumi shares his strategies for success in the world of competitions

Rem Koolhaas's relationship with New York is on the rocks

The contractors are gone. So why do I feel blue?

At an old distillery complex, Rem Koolhaas's Prada Foundation mixes one part creative preservation with one part bold new architecture

A Review of Rem Koolhaas' new store in SoHo

How HomeVestors went national

The difficulties of saving New Canaan's modernist architecture

Events of the summer of 1969

A new book looks at more than 50 recently completed, architecturally ambitious Japanese houses, offering a profound counterpoint to the comparatively safe — in several senses of the word — 21st-century residential design frequently found in the West

But there's protection for tenants or former tenants

Two great artists as lovers

Many of Frank Lloyd Wright's most evocative drawings were by Marion Mahony Griffin

Fresh off a series of successes (including the new Philadelphia home of the Barnes Foundation) and one preservationist brouhaha (the imminent destruction of their beloved 2001 American Folk Art Museum), the husband-and-wife architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are looking to the future, with projects from Mexico City to Mumbai

He designed the London Eye with his wife -- then mortgaged their house to get it built

Mourning Phiippe Starck's Miracle on 44th Street

Richard Gluckman reimagines a Con Edison substation for Peter M. Brant’s latest art venue in New York

For Jacques Lowe's book marking the 40th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination, photos destroyed in the World Trade Center attacks were digitally recreated

The Yale University Art Gallery gets an extensive, but faithful, renovation

Diller Scofidio + Renfro takes a crack at elevating Chinese workers

Princeton's first architecture dean was also a very good architect

Working on Fallingwater brought out the best in Robert Silman, the structural engineer who died this week at 83

The New York architects recently won the bid to design a condo-hotel building on the Brooklyn waterfront. Image courtesy Rogers Marvel Rogers Marvel has designed a 550,000-square-foot building that steps back from the Michael Van Valkenburgh-designed Brooklyn Bridge Park. Twenty years ago, when Jonathan Marvel and Rob Rogers founded Rogers Marvel Architects, they decided to forego the route taken by many young Manhattan firms—designing residential and commercial interiors—preferring, Marvel says, “to cut our teeth on New York City’s’ bricks and mortar.” 

And not much else (a review of a new Ritz-Carlton)

The memorial design by landscape architects Dan Affleck and Ben Waldo offers a contemplative space in nature

Baroque influences shape this sinuous contemporary church in Southern Italy by Mario Cucinella Architects

A review of the World Trade Center "Transit Hub"

Santiago Calatrava's opera house at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands is dominated by a winglike canopy nearly 200 feet tall.

This one's a gallery; that one's a publicly accessible private home

The California-based interiors wunderkind creates smart, soulful homes that feel like extensions of their occupants

The walkable community now has valet parking, and other concessions to the real world

Contemplative architect George Suyama built a house for himself and his wife that is as hospitable to the landscape as it is to the couple's guests.

Protecting antiquities from war and looters

Hundreds of thousands of daily visitors, about 200 buildings, $4.2 billion spent: Shanghai’s lavish world expo, which opened on May 1 and runs through the end of October, is a chance for China’s largest city to announce itself as a cultural and economic powerhouse. It’s also a stage where the nations of the world can show off—to visitors and each other—through architecture. Fred A. Bernstein tours the Expo, surveys its architectural hits and misses, and even gets inside the much-maligned U.S. pavilion

Falling for the Infinity Razor

A Paul Rudolph apartment, untouched for nearly 40 years

Paul Rudolph designed this glamorous apartment nearly four decades ago. It still dazzles today

Funding shortfalls could hinder ambitious waterfront schemes planned for several U.S. cities

Master Architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen used his signature vocabulary to create a unique rocky mountain retreat.

Small houses buck the McMansion trend

No more guessing which car to take

A 35-foot-high billboard on the facade of the Port Authority Bus Terminal will obscure the strengths of the building's 1980's renovation

Real estate developers have begun gobbling up properties in South Florida.

Contaminated beaches -- and persistent respiratory problems -- hit a region that includes some of America's fast-growing cities

Two hotels in Miami Beach makes waves

Designed for isolation, it's now surrounded

In Manhattan, a sleek rectilinear garage and sculptural salt shed brighten the city

Ando, Meier, Scott Brown, Decq, and others talk about their inspirations

Surviving the Holocaust with needle and thread

Despite declining attendance and revenue, many cities are expanding convention centers or building new ones

A group of Auburn University students are designing a bridge for Volkswagen’s planned factory in Tennessee

My assessment of Ground Zero, in 2018

Reiser+Umemoto's Taipei Music Center is a brawny complex of cubic and crystalline forms

Smashing Mies

A review of The Full Monty on Broadway

A sobering look at how designing a building to meet Passive House standards affects its overall energy use.

Can a house alone on a mountainside in British Columbia possibly be “climate positive,” as its architects and developer claim?

The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture can be as unconventional as its founder

Nationally, ceiling heights rise

To lead the profession, firms must nimbly respond to and embrace technological changes

Saving modernist houses

Staying in other people's houses -- in my home city

Thank Dale Chihuly

A hotel I should have skipped

A history professor at Princeton University uncovers dark tales of caregiving in the decades before America’s social safety net.

Rare public space for Orange County, California

The playwright John Patrick Shanley has had a lifelong fascination with color -- as seen in his latest apartment

A quirky magazine's farewell

Related Las Vegas sold them, but never built them

Technologies that are changing how architects practice

Some buildings just couldn't be saved

Perhaps Japan's most innovative architect, Fujimoto makes buildings that resemble clouds and forests.

When designer Barbara Hill decided to renovate her 1960s condo in Houston, Texas, she stripped the bathroom down to its bare bones and saw beauty in the blemishes

A magical new building in SoHo

Fourteen years after founding their experimental practice, the architects of SO–IL hit their stride

After 12 years of astonishing change in New York, Bloomberg earns mixed marks

Molded plastic mailboxes are changing the look of suburbia

Profile of Reed Kroloff, an advisor to architecture competitions.

Should the great landscape architect be recognized for more than his astounding parks and gardens?

Climbing a volcano in Bali.

A look back at Michael Graves's career

SOM's student-centered building on Fifth Avenue

Foreword to "52 Weeks of Parenting Wisdom: Effective Strategies for Raising Respectful, Happy Kids" by Meg Akabas

The small California town of Bolinas has kept out development for decades by restricting the number of water meters it issues

Cape Cod's first "gay suburb"

A history of New York City architecture: the last 150 years in 4,500 words

As Brooklyn’s residential building boom continues, more luxury buildings are going up alongside Green-Wood Cemetery

Can art save a strip shopping center from aesthetic irrelevance?

A country of candy-colored architecture. Who knew? (Oliver Wainwright did.)

Tired of high real estate prices? Consider the alternative

David van der Leer, the institute’s new director, arranged to swap its longtime quarters on the sixth floor of a Flatiron district building for a storefront space in the same building

In real estate, the secret may be timing, timing, timing

An interview with Leah Adler, Steven Spielberg's mother

Visiting the Meiji Mura Museum

The three-year, $44 million restoration is a hit

In Salem, Witchcraft and Old Architecture

In the Bronx, new parks are opening and old parks are being revitalized at a pace not seen since Robert Moses’s heyday. 

Rice to riches? Or rice to ruin?

For Stan Allen and his wife, Polly Apfelbaum, finding a contemporary house in history-laden Princeton, N.J., was a process fraught with disappointment

My mother’s jewelry isn’t bringing the prices Elizabeth Taylor’s did, but it pays to shop around.

An urban pioneer's new venture

A few minutes with Jill Soloway

In 2014, after accepting the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron drove from Chicago to Plano, Illinois, to visit -- and criticize -- Mies van der Rohe’s iconic Farnsworth House 

Donald Trump’s project for a golf resort on the northeast coast of Scotland, near Aberdeen, hangs in the balance as environmentalists say the rugged coastline should be left undisturbed

Living rent-free, Cal Lane makes her mark

Completed in 1962 and abandoned in 2001, Eero Saarinen’s bird-like building at JFK Airport in New York now serves as a spectacular lobby for the new hotel

If you’re prominent and reach the age of 80, The New York Times may have a writer (possibly this one) prepare your obituary for later use

The exhibitions look at daily life in very different ways: via mid-century modernist interiors and through temporary homes for refugees

Another embarrassing U.S. pavilion, courtesy of a shortsighted Congress

With its new Journal, SOM critiques itself

When David Carmel decided to propose to Kirsten Axelsen, he was at home in Manhattan and she was in Ethiopia, working to eliminate trachoma (the world’s leading cause of preventable blindness). No problem: David flew 7,000 miles to pop the question at a restaurant in Addis Ababa. A year and a trip to the altar later, the Carmels now live in a Chelsea apartment that’s designed in part to make it easy for David to get around in a wheelchair; a diving accident eight years ago left him paralyzed from the waist down

Under African Skies: The first phase of an ambitious national university creates a community of buildings and outdoor spaces adapted to a hot, dry climate

Amazon is now the place to sell used books -- but with unexpected consequences

A Korean firm is part of Record's Design Vanguard

Gorgeous interiors, up (under) the roof

A neighborhood saved by a mural?

Beware of Dryvit. Artificial stucco, sometimes called EIFS, lets architects and builders add postmodern flourishes inexpensively, but at significant cost.

The museum-going experience of a lifetime

"I can't stand art. I never could," the former artist (now designer) claims

A new pedestrian and bike path across the East River

A developer recreates Sunnyside (or tries to)

Reviving the shores of the Anacostia

The architect Bing Thom has renovated the home of Arena Stage in southwest Washington, adding a third performance space to the complex.

Arthur Cotton Moore designs a curvy metal house to test his theories

The state of Philip Johnson's buildings

A temple to honor at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs damages perhaps the greatest modernist campus in the world. And it's by the campus's original architect, SOM

Blue blood meets white architecture in New England.

Baby boomers lead the charge to tear down 60's architecture

Steven Holl's building for Pratt Institute in Brooklyn

A day trip to Troy, N.Y.

Big Architecture in a Small Town

Finally, someone's paying attention the New York State Pavilion at the 1964-65 World's Fair

Endowments for the presidential libraries are coming up short

Putting a wealthy donor’s name on a museum can discourage some givers, experts say, but could encourage others

Without the old brick house, it's glass-on-glass

A conversation with Bill Pedersen, whose firm Kohn Pedersen Fox is responsible for the development's master plan. 

A world's fair pavilion costs less than an Apache helicopter -- and Shanghai 2010 is approaching

The founder of The Architect’s Newspaper died at age 72 on Saturday, April 11, 2020, in New York, after a long battle with lymphoma

Especially if the church has already borrowed against the planned buildings

Architects and designers are using humble timber to create awe-inspiring structures and interiors around the globe

A puppeteer copes with Parkinson's disease

A review of the $2.7 billion hotel